The LAX FlyAway bus service to and from Van Nuys will be delayed because of road closures related to the Getty fire, which broke out early Monday. Passengers can expect the southbound trip to the airport from Van Nuys to take between an hour and 45 minutes to two hours, according to an LAX news release issued just before noon. There also are delays on the return service to Van Nuys.

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For up-to-date information, passengers should follow @FlyLAXAirport on Twitter. “Ticket agents at the Van Nuys FlyAway station are advising guests of the delay in case they wish to use alternate means of travel to reach LAX,” the airport statement said.

The FlyAway bus has been rerouted away from the 405 Freeway and onto the 101 and 105 freeways, lengthening the usually 35-minute trip.

The early-morning fire started west of the 405 and has entered neighborhoods on L.A.’s Westside, including near the Getty Center museum, burning some homes and prompting evacuations. About 10,000 structures have been placed under mandatory evacuation orders. As of 12:45 p.m. Monday, the evacuation zone was bordered by Mulholland Drive on the north, the 405 on the east, Sunset Boulevard on the south, and Temescal Canyon Road on the west.

UCLA canceled classes as a result of the blaze. Here are the latest evacuation orders, school and road closures, and shelters.

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Singer-songwriter Martin Johnson of the new wave band the Night Game has put his home in Hollywood Hills up for sale at $2.295 million.

The multilevel home, described as a modern cabin, has been renovated and incorporates charcoal stucco and knotless cedar siding for a fresh new look. Splashes of cedar continue inside, giving the living spaces a cozy feel.

The three-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom floor plan includes a new-look kitchen and dining area that opens to a balcony. A sunken family room sits off the home’s library, which has a track ladder for reaching two custom bookshelves.

In the master suite, which has a custom closet and bathroom, picture windows take in views of the canyon area and the Hollywood sign.

The home, designed by Tony Ngai and built in 1978, carves out additional living space with a tri-level rooftop deck.

Johnson, 34, also serves as the frontman for pop-rock band Boys Like Girls. As a songwriter and producer, he has collaborated with artists such as Taylor Swift, Avril Lavigne and Jason Derulo.

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He bought the property two years ago for $1.425 million, records show.

Patricia Ruben of Sotheby’s International Realty holds the listing.

Alphabet Inc.’s quarterly earnings were dented by heavy investment in Google’s cloud-computing business, which is key to future growth but still runs a distant third in the market behind Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp.

Net income was $7.1 billion, or $10.12 a share, down from $9.2 billion, or $13.06 a share, in the same period a year earlier, the company reported Monday. Analysts expected $12.35 a share, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Alphabet shares fell about 1% in extended trading, after closing at $1,288.98.

Google, the world’s largest online search provider, has been building data centers, buying equipment and hiring salespeople to support its cloud unit, which rents computing power and software services over the internet. Former Oracle Corp. executive Thomas Kurian was hired late last year to reinvigorate this effort.

In the latest period, expenses totaled $31.3 billion, up 25% from a year earlier, while revenue rose 20% to $40.5 billion. Capital spending was $6.7 billion, up 27%.

“We continue to invest thoughtfully in talent and infrastructure to support our growth, particularly in newer areas like cloud and machine learning,” Ruth Porat, chief financial officer of Alphabet and Google, said in a statement.

Alphabet is looking for new sources of revenue growth, beyond the main Google digital advertising business, and the cloud may be the company’s biggest opportunity. In July, Google said it expected to pull in $8 billion this year in cloud revenue. That’s still a lot less than Amazon and Microsoft.

Total revenue excluding payments to distribution partners was $33 billion, compared with the average estimate of $32.72 billion. Google’s Other Revenue, which includes cloud and consumer hardware, was $6.4 billion. RBC Capital Markets analyst Mark Mahaney was looking for $6.6 billion.

Google’s ad revenue rose 17% to $33.9 billion, suggesting demand for the company’s search, video and web display ads remains strong, even as regulatory and privacy pressures mount. Alphabet shares hit a record earlier on Monday on optimism about the ad business.

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Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Google, said “strong” sales growth was driven by mobile search, YouTube and cloud.

Beyond Meat Inc. fell in late trading despite an increased sales forecast and its first quarterly profit. Investors are bracing for a sell-off on Tuesday, when early backers of the faux meat maker will finally be allowed to cash out.

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The maker of meatless beef and sausages said third-quarter sales rose 250% to $92 million, outpacing analysts’ average estimate. The company now sees full-year revenue of $265 million to $275 million, compared with a July projection that it would surpass $240 million.

Beyond Meat’s shares dropped for a second straight time after reporting earnings even amid increasingly optimistic projections. In July, the stock fell after the company announced a secondary offering. Now, with early backers expected to cash in on the company’s surge since its IPO, market factors are once again outweighing performance.

Regardless of stock market activity, the sales outlook is rosy. Beyond Meat, based in El Segundo, has been steadily adding restaurant partners. The latest, announced earlier Monday, is Denny’s. Dunkin’ restaurants are also taking the company’s plant-based breakfast sausage across the U.S. Retail, restaurant and food service channels have all seen increased volumes, the company said in the release.

Investors are eager to hear about more tie-ins, especially with big restaurant chains. In September, Beyond Meat announced a test in Canada in McDonald’s. On Monday’s call with analysts, Chief Executive Ethan Brown said he is “very optimistic about the long-term relationship” with McDonald’s and has “every expectation” that the test will lead to more work together. But ultimately, it will be up to the restaurant chain to make that announcement, he said.

Beyond Meat shares fell as much as 14% in after-hours trading on Monday before paring much of the loss. The share decline of about 8.7% at 2:53 p.m. PDT may just be a blip on the radar for the company, whose stock has soared more than 320% since its IPO in May.

Elon Musk will have to go to trial in December after a federal judge rebuffed his latest request to throw out a defamation lawsuit filed by a British cave diver Musk referred to as a “pedo guy.”

U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson in Los Angeles on Monday ruled that a jury will have to decide whether Musk was negligent for failing to check that statements he made in his tweets and “off-the-record” emails were true. The Tesla CEO’s accusations, the judge said, were not germane to any public controversy involving Vernon Unsworth, which might have entitled him to a free-speech defense.

The burden of proof for negligence is lower than that for actual malice, Unsworth’s lawyer Lin Wood said after the hearing. Unsworth will have to persuade the jury by a preponderance of evidence rather than clear and convincing evidence, which will make it easier for the panel to find Musk liable for defamation, Wood said.

Whether Musk acted with malice could still be used in seeking punitive damages, Wood said.

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“We look forward to the trial,” Alex Spiro, an attorney for Musk, said in a statement. “We understand that, while Musk has apologized, Unsworth would like to milk his 15 minutes of fame.”

Musk started his public spat with Unsworth last year after the caver said in an interview on CNN that a mini-submarine Musk had sent to Thailand to help in a rescue of a group of boys trapped in a cave was a “PR stunt.” Unsworth added that Musk could “stick his submarine where it hurts.”

Musk responded by calling Unsworth a “pedo guy” in a tweet and a “child rapist” in an email to a BuzzFeed reporter.

Wilson wasn’t persuaded by arguments from Musk’s attorney at Monday’s hearing, Robert Schwartz, that any alleged pedophilia was somehow relevant to the question of whether Musk’s submarine might have worked in the rescue or was a public relations stunt.

“You’re saying his being a pedophile is germane to the issue whether Musk had sincere motivation,” Wilson said. “That seems a bit of a stretch.”

The judge said he would issue a written ruling later. However, by throwing out Musk’s 1st Amendment defense that he was engaging with a public figure in a public controversy, Unsworth doesn’t have to prove Musk acted with actual malice to win his defamation claim.

The case took a new twist this month after court documents showed that Musk, after his initial tweets in July 2018, had hired a private investigator to dig up dirt about Unsworth. It turned out the detective was a convicted con man.

Musk then sent an off-the-record email to a BuzzFeed reporter in which he said Unsworth had married a 12-year-old child bride in Thailand. Unsworth says that’s not what the investigator told Musk.

Unsworth said in court filings that he met his Thai wife in London when she was age 32. The caver also scoffed at Musk’s defense that he didn’t intend for his off-the-record email to be published.

Unsworth said Musk “admitted that he wanted the information published whether true or false, and told the reporter that publication is ‘up to you.”’

One day in late August, in the final stretch of summer, Katie Holmes stopped internet traffic when she stepped out in New York City dressed in a sumptuously sleeved cashmere cardigan. Buttoned haphazardly at the navel and draped off of a shoulder, it revealed not just a sweep of collarbone and a peek of midriff but a matching cashmere bralette in the same crisp shade of barley.

The actress’ look caused a social media frenzy. All weekend, international fashion publications from Vogue to Grazia created “shop the look” features. Instagram feeds jammed with the image. “I saw Katie Holmes wearing a cashmere bra so I bought a cashmere bra,” read Dubai-based Savoir Flair’s caption, just after the bra in question, Khaite’s cashmere Eda Bralette, sold out within an hour despite costing $520.

Holmes had unofficially kicked off what the fall runways deemed the season of ambitious knitwear. If sweaters for fall sounds like an eye-rolling suggestion, think again. These are no mere bourgeois crewnecks meant to bolster wardrobes against dipping temperatures but weaves of wool, cashmere and upcycled cotton in constructions so complex and executions so luxurious, they only narrowly meet the categorical requirements of a sweater.

Take, for example, Joseph Altuzarra’s hybrid confections for his 10th-anniversary collection, in which a Fair Isle yoke gives way to a zebra-print coat, cable-knit sleeves flank biker jackets and blazers and fisherman knit vests transform into glistening plissé lamé skirts in silver and gold. Or the sophisticated knits that define Céline alumnus Daniel Lee’s debut for Bottega Veneta. And British designer Jonathan Anderson served unencumbered femininity in sweaters of every weight (heavy-ply austere gray tunics, gossamer-thin ruffled sweater dresses, and paisley and striped sweaters punkishly braided, belted or knotted) at his fall/winter show.

In the midst of political, economic and environmental anxiety, the desire to cloak oneself in temperature-controlled wardrobes of the softest materials seems the most natural self-soothing response. But it’s not the sweater revival’s only impetus. The seemingly unprecedented interest in knitwear has been building in Los Angeles for years.

Among L.A.-bred or -based designers, the groundswell began in 2008, the year Rodarte founders Kate and Laura Mulleavy released cobwebby twin sets made with loose weaves of threads so delicate they threatened to disintegrate on the wearer. It was also the year that fashion outsider Greg Chait shipped his first collection of Baja sweaters upgraded from their head-shop brethren by hand-knit cashmere so exquisite, they would go on to win the designer the CFDA/Vogue award in 2012, beating out the better-known Wes Gordon and Tabitha Simmons.

Launched alongside the financial crash, Chait’s brand, the Elder Statesman, experienced unlikely success, which the designer credits to the unwavering value of his material of choice, cashmere. “It’s measurable! It’s like gold — there are levels,” said Chait. “24 karat gold is a lot more pure than 18 karat gold. Cashmere is measured by micron count.” Chait’s sweaters are hand-knit and hand-dyed at his new 2,000-square-foot downtown L.A. studio with the world’s best cashmere, sourced from India and Italy. The results are seemingly straightforward pieces with familiar themes (tie-dye, the California flag, a head-fake “Marlboro” logo that actually reads “Meditate”) that carry unmatched value you can feel and see — especially in the price tag. An Elder Statesman sweater can cost upward of $2,000. “In a world where everything’s so confusing and you don’t know what anything is, people want something they can understand,” said Chait.

People also want something they can wear — often. For all of the flash-in-the-pan glitz in today’s fashion, it’s the practical pieces that women respond to en masse. Elder Statesman was borne of Chait’s love of cashmere but it’s the sweaters’ relevance to their wearers’ lives that kept him, and soon others, churning them out. “It’s dry here. We’re in the desert. For at least 300 days a year, you need a sweater,” said Chait. “We don’t have overcoats in California, so a sweater is a really versatile piece.”

Catherine Holstein, the designer behind Holmes’ viral “bra-digan,” could be pinned with a similar inspiration point: Year after year, the California-born designer’s collections elevate the staples of a West Coast wardrobe (denim, shirting and sweaters). The cropped V-neck cashmere cardigan the brand launched in 2018 became a similarly viral success when it was worn by fellow Angeleno Bella Hadid.

This is the city that birthed the cashmere sweatsuit, popularized by local designers high and low, including Baja East and Monrow, and the celebrities who fly in them. And the native urge to wear sweaters is not lost on newcomers: When vintage collector and street-style star Natalie Joos arrived in L.A. in 2016, she discovered an insatiable yen for the perfect fitted layering piece. Vintage Courrèges sweaters came close but they were “too short, not stretchy enough, and a little bit scratchy,” said Joos. After a year of searching, she set out to make some for herself under the label JoosTricot: peachskin (a supple blend of silk cotton and nylon plated in Lycra) mock turtlenecks, T-shirts and long-sleeve crewnecks made to stand on their own or sneak beneath a dress, blazer or shirt. “I think those sweaters are perfect for L.A. because it does get chilly — you can still be sexy but you’re covered,” she said.

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“Knitwear is timelessly Californian,” agreed Katherine Kleveland, cofounder of Dôen, the brand favored by Topanga supermodels, celebrity doulas and rock-star royalty. Dôen has come to define the coastal Californian aesthetic to the international style set — particularly with the trademark knubby sweaters they turn out and sell out of each season. This fall’s oversized alpaca cable-knit cardigan in an earthy shade of cinnamon has already sold out, with a cropped, pompom-smattered mint green version set to drop shortly. “We just design what we want to wear,” said Kleveland of Dôen’s design ethos.

Sweaters from Dôen, the Elder Statesman, Khaite, the Row and JoosTricot are interchangeable season to season, with each designer’s collections blending seamlessly into one cohesive aesthetic. It’s an enticing concept in amongst the ugly truths of fast fashion. “I’m so allergic to doing something and moving on from it and never seeing it again,” said Chait, whose point of pride lies in making products that will last aesthetically and physically. “We’re not making clothes for the sake of making clothes,” echoed Dôen cofounder Margaret Kleveland. “It’s this freedom of not having to exist in that trend cycle.”

How they’re made also speaks to their luxury. While big businesses scramble to attract Gen Z consumers with efforts to humanize the production and distribution of their goods, both Elder Statesman and Dôen have set a new bar for transparency. These labels often document and publish every aspect of their production. “We’re super thoughtful and intentional in our sourcing, partnering with sources and producers who share our values,” said Katherine Kleveland. Dôen produces sweaters in Peru, knitted by a group of local women artisans who use alpaca wool from animals that are protected by the government. “It’s only shorn once a year,” added Margaret Kleveland. “The quality of raw materials and integrity of the people doing the work is at the highest level in Peru.”

PARIS — 

For Georges Salines, whose 28-year-old daughter Lola was killed when Islamic extremists went on a bloody rampage in Paris in 2015, the death of the man who inspired the attack brought a welcome “sense of satisfaction.”

But like other survivors and families of victims of the militant group Islamic State, Salines stressed that the death of its leader, Abu Bakr Baghdadi, does not mean the fight against terrorism is over.

“It would have been even better if Al-Baghdadi could have been captured and sent to trial,” Salines told the Associated Press. “That was probably impossible. We knew that for a long time.”

Baghdadi was responsible for directing and inspiring attacks by his followers around the world. In Iraq and Syria, he steered his organization into committing acts of brutality on a mass scale: massacres of his opponents; beheadings and stonings that were broadcast to a shocked audience on the internet; and the kidnapping and enslavement of women.

His death was announced Sunday by President Trump, who said Baghdadi detonated an explosives vest while being pursued by U.S. forces in Syria, killing himself and three of his children. It was another major blow to the Islamic State group, which in March was routed by U.S. and Kurdish forces from the last part of its self-declared caliphate that once spanned a swath of Iraq and Syria at its height.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for the Nov. 13, 2015, attacks on Paris cafes, the national stadium and the Bataclan concert hall that left 130 people dead, including Lola Salines and Thomas Duperron, 30.

Duperron’s father, Philippe, who is president of the French victims association 13onze15, which takes its name from the date of the attacks, said Baghdadi’s death was “not bad news.”

“One major player of the Islamic State group’s actions has disappeared,” he told AP, although he said that his group would not express joy at any death.

A trial of suspects in the Paris attacks is expected to begin in 2021. French prosecutors said this month that the judicial investigation of the attacks has ended and that 1,740 plaintiffs have joined the proceedings. Fourteen people have been charged in the case, including Salah Abdeslam, the only surviving suspect of the group of assailants.

French magistrates had recently issued an international arrest warrant for Baghdadi in a counter-terrorism investigation for “heading or organizing a criminal terrorist conspiracy.”

Arthur Denouveaux, a Bataclan survivor and president of the Life for Paris victims group, told the French newspaper Le Parisien that we, “the victims, are not seeking revenge … but a desire for justice.”

Baghdadi’s death is “symbolically is a major blow to the operational capacities” of Islamic State, he said.

“It is essential to continue the fight for the security of the region and also of European countries,” Denouveaux added.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for three suicide bombings in Brussels on March 22, 2016, that killed 32 people at its airport and in a metro station. Philippe Vansteenkiste, who lost his sister in the airport bombing and went on to become director of V-Europe, an association of victims of those attacks, said he knows the fight is not over.

“This is a new step in the fight against Daesh, but I’m not naive,” Vansteenkiste said, using a derisive Arabic acronym for the militant group. “Their spiritual leader has been hit, but Daesh and many sleeping cells still exist, either in Syria or in our country.”

The parents of Steven Sotloff, an American-Israeli journalist who was killed by Islamic State, thanked Trump and the U.S. forces that conducted the raid that led to Baghdadi’s death.

“While the victory will not bring our beloved son Steven back to us, it is a significant step in the campaign against ISIS,” Shirley Sotloff told reporters at their Florida home, using another acronym for the militant group.

In 2014 and 2015, the militants held more than 20 Western hostages in Syria and tortured many of them. The group beheaded seven U.S., British and Japanese journalists and aid workers and a group of Syrian soldiers. Sotloff was among them.

In Jordan, Safi Kasasbeh, whose son was slain by Islamic State after being captured in 2014, said he was “very happy” to learn of Baghdadi’s death.

“I wished that I killed him with my bare hands,” Kasasbeh said. “This was one of my dreams, if not to be the one who kills him, at least to witness the moment when he gets killed. But Allah didn’t want that to happen.”

Moaz Kasasbeh was a fighter pilot who was captured by Islamic State militants after being shot down while fighting in a U.S.-led coalition in Syria. The militants locked him in a cage and burned him to death, and later broadcast video of his death on the internet.

In Syria and Iraq, among the main victims of Baghdadi’s organization, residents expressed relief at the demise of the man who presided over the self-styled caliphate.

In the Iraqi city of Mosul, still in ruins two years after it was liberated from Islamic State, there was no closure.

“His death is a fraction of the sins and misdeeds he inflicted on the victims who lost their lives in the Old City area and whose bodies until now are still under the rubble. All because of him and his organization,” said resident Mudhir Abdul Qadir.

“We hope that the culture of Al-Baghdadi’s and Daesh is killed forever…. Killing this culture is the real victory,” said Mehdi Sultan, a government employee in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

Like others, however, he was not optimistic. “One Al-Baghdadi goes out, another comes in. It’s the same old story.”

Perhaps nowhere is Baghdadi more reviled than among Iraq’s Yazidis, who are still unable to return home or locate hundreds of women and children kidnapped and enslaved by Islamic State five years ago. The Yazidis are followers of an ancient religion with ties to Zoroastrianism.

The militants rampaged through northern Iraq’s Sinjar region in August 2014, destroying villages and religious sites, kidnapping thousands of women and children, and trading them in modern-day slavery. The United Nations called the attacks genocide.

Nadia Murad, a Yazidi woman who was among those kidnapped and enslaved, welcomed the news of Baghdadi’s death.

“Al-Baghdadi died as he lived — a coward using children as a shield. Let today be the beginning of the global fight to bring ISIS to justice,” she tweeted.

Murad, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for her activism against genocide and sexual violence, called for all those Islamic State members captured alive to be brought to justice in an open court for the world to see.

“We must unite and hold ISIS terrorists accountable in the same way the world tried the Nazis in an open court at the Nuremberg trials,” she wrote.

Associated Press writers Samuel Petrequin in Brussels; Josef Federman in Jerusalem; Omar Akour in Al-Karak, Jordan; Salar Salim in Irbil, Iraq; and Ali Abdul-Hassan in Baghdad contributed to this report.

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When a wildfire burns, every parent’s first thought is to protect their kids. But scroll through the internet, or browse local hardware stores, and you’ll have surprising difficulty finding a respirator mask from a reputable brand designed for infants and small children.

That’s because they don’t exist. While certified “N95” or “P100” masks can filter smoke and ash particles and improve air quality for adults, they are not designed for children.

So what should you do? First, do not buy an adult-sized mask in the hope that it may protect your child.

“They do not fit properly and can impede breathing,” according to the California Department of Public Health.

Some masks do come in smaller sizes, but they will probably be too large to form a tight enough seal around a small child’s nose and mouth to ensure protection. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health does not certify any childrens’ respirator masks.

Pediatricians warn that masks may also offer parents a false sense of security, encouraging them to spend more time outdoors exposing their children to hazardous smoke.

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“Parents can feel like their child has a mask on and is being protected, but the air that’s leaking around the sides of the mask is not being filtered because it doesn’t fit properly,” said Nelson Branco, a Marin County pediatrician who is on the governing board of the American Academy of Pediatrics, California. “There are lots of sites on Amazon and local sites that will sell you masks for children, but in general, we don’t recommend people get the over-the-counter masks, because they don’t tend to work very well.”

While some experts warn that ill-fitting masks can actually obstruct airflow and hamper breathing, Branco said masks are unlikely to cause serious breathing problems. But, he said, many children could find them uncomfortable, which could cause other problems.

“If the mask does not fit well or function, it may create anxiety for the child wearing it,” he said.

Short-term exposure to wildfire smoke, Branco stressed, should not harm most children who do not have asthma or an underlying lung disease.

“Personally, I like to decrease people’s anxiety, and a temporary exposure, for most children who are healthy, is not going to lead to long-term issues,” Branco said. “Typically, it takes long-term exposure — living in a highly polluted city like New Delhi or Manila, where the air quality index is always over 150 — or an underlying lung disease for there to be a significant problem.”

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Still, there are a range of measures parents can take to protect children.

Pulmonologists and pediatricians advise parents to log on to www.AirNow.gov to track air quality. If the air quality exceeds 150 on the air quality index, parents should make sure children, particularly those with asthma or other respiratory diseases, remain indoors as much as possible, with doors and windows closed. That simple measure, the California Department of Public Health advises, can reduce exposure to air pollution by a third or more.

According to the federal Environmental Protection Agency, children can face particular health risks from exposure to wildfire smoke and ash, because their lungs are still growing. Symptoms can include chest pain and tightness, nose, throat and eye burning, as well as wheezing, coughing, dizziness.
The agency advises parents to prepare in advance by creating a “clean room” (an indoor space with few windows and doors), investing in a portable air cleaner they can use in this room and stocking up on food, medicine and essential supplies.

During a wildfire, parents should encourage their kids to avoid strenuous activities and keep them indoors, with the doors and windows closed, and pay attention to local news and public health warnings.

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If you have an air conditioning system, run it with the fresh-air intake closed to keep smoky outdoor air from getting inside.

If not, consider leaving your area if your child has health conditions that may place them at a higher risk. Either head to a local clean-air shelter or a public building with air conditioning or seeking shelter at a friend or relative’s home.

MELBOURNE, Australia — 

An Australian judge sentenced a man to 36 years in prison on Tuesday for the murder and rape of an Israeli student in the city of Melbourne.

Victoria state Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Hollingworth ordered Codey Herrmann, 21, to serve at least 30 years behind bars for his crimes against 21-year-old Aiia Maasarwe in January.

Herrmann had pleaded guilty to repeatedly beating Maasarwe with a metal pole, sexually assaulting her and setting her on fire in the attack.

“Women should be free to walk the streets alone without fear of being violently attacked by a stranger,” Hollingworth said. “She had no opportunity to flee or escape.”

The victim had been studying at La Trobe University in Melbourne for five months as an exchange student from Shanghai University in China.

She was on her way home from a comedy club to her student accommodation on the campus when she was attacked shortly after stepping from a tram.

Maasarwe’s relatives sobbed in the public gallery as the judge recounted details of the killing.

“It was a savage attack with a crude but effective weapon which immediately rendered her unconscious,” the judge said, noting Maasarwe had been alone and unsuspecting.

He then set her body on fire to destroy evidence, which “showed utter contempt of her dignity,” the judge said.

Prosecutors had applied for the killer to be imprisoned for life. But Herrmann’s lawyer, Tim Marsh, told the court his client deserved some leniency because he had a personality disorder stemming from a severely traumatic childhood and this had warped his view of the world.

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Fire Knows No Boundaries

As Californians have learned time and again, wildfires don’t discriminate. They consume.

Up north, the massive Kincade fire in Sonoma County wine country has destroyed 123 structures, including 57 homes, since starting a week ago. With some of the strongest winds of the season expected to hit much of California this week, residents who fled their homes are bracing for more fear and uncertainty, while millions of others face prolonged power outages.

Down south, firefighters in Los Angeles have struggled to control a fire near the Getty Center that destroyed eight homes and damaged five in Brentwood. Housekeepers and gardeners reported for work, as thousands of people were ordered to evacuate some of the priciest enclaves on Earth. Museum officials reported the artwork was safe.

More About the Fires

— L.A. and Bay Area residents are breathing the smoke. That has led schools and others to take precautions.

— The same areas of California keep catching on fire. What about limits on home building?

— Be prepared: How you can get ready for wildfires.

Impeachment Inquiry Update: A Vote Looms

House Democrats have decided to hold a formal vote on impeachment proceedings against President Trump, a step they had resisted for several weeks, and one that will provide the first public test of sentiment in the House on the divisive issue. The vote could come as early as Thursday.

Enough Democrats have publicly said that they support the inquiry, which has been underway since late September, that the outcome is not significantly in doubt. But each side will be watching to see how many defections the other suffers.

The news comes as Alexander Vindman, a military officer at the National Security Council, plans to testify today that he twice raised concerns over the Trump administration’s push to have Ukraine investigate Democrats and Joe Biden. On Monday, former national security official Charles Kupperman defied a House subpoena to appear.

More Politics

— Democratic Rep. Katie Hill’s decision to resign from Congress has given Republicans an unexpected chance to recapture her House district on the northern edge of the Los Angeles suburbs, but Trump’s unpopularity in California will make it a steep challenge for the GOP.

— Former Gov. Jerry Brown will testify before Congress today about the damage the Trump administration’s plans to roll back auto emission standards could do to California.

— How much will Trump benefit from the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr Baghdadi during a U.S. raid? Normally, it would help a president, but of course it’s not that easy. Meanwhile, Trump tweeted a photo of a military dog hurt during the operation. The dog’s name is classified.

When an Extension Isn’t an ‘Extension’

The Trump administration has extended temporary protected status for thousands of Salvadorans in the United States, granting them reprieve from removal to El Salvador. But as with many things in Washington these days, it’s complicated.

El Salvador’s president touted the move on Twitter as a victory for his newly elected administration. Trump administration officials painted a different picture, attempting to limit the scope of the extension. Acting head of Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli said the status was not being extended at all.

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It’s a South Bay tradition that goes back to 1952: Every year, a 3.3-million-gallon orange storage tank at a refinery in Wilmington gets a Halloween makeover as Smilin’ Jack with a 73-foot-long smile and 18-foot-tall eyes. And as this story from 1995 noted, “If it were filled with pumpkin meat, there would be enough to make 26,800,000 pumpkin pies.”

CALIFORNIA

— The L.A. County district attorney’s office says it will review questions surrounding an apartment rented by the son of City Councilman Herb Wesson at a building linked to a Koreatown real estate developer.

— Buddy, can you spare $100 million? Los Angeles City Hall, facing a potential triple-digit deficit largely tied to recent labor agreements with the city’s police, fire and other unions, could soon implement a sweeping savings plan.

— Former San Francisco Dist. Atty. George Gascon will challenge Jackie Lacey to become L.A. County’s top prosecutor next year. The contest could test the political mood for criminal justice reform.

— Does Little Saigon in Orange County have the best Vietnamese food in the country?

HOLLYWOOD AND THE ARTS

— As new wildfires burn, two documentaries come to television to mark the anniversary of the Nov. 8, 2018, Camp fire, the deadliest wildfire in California history.

— Hollywood producer Robert Evans has died at 89. Even as his contemporaries and fans saluted him, Evans’ checkered past did not go unnoticed in death.

— TV critic Lorraine Ali looks at the rare occasion of a U.S. president being booed at the World Series and how Trump’s strategy has come back to bite him.

— For the L.A. Phil’s 100th anniversary, Zubin Mehta, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Gustavo Dudamel got together for some epic concerts.

NATION-WORLD

— North Carolina judges have blocked the state’s congressional map from being used in the 2020 elections, ruling that voters had a strong likelihood of winning a lawsuit that argued Republicans unlawfully manipulated district lines for partisan gain.

— Kurdish and Turkish forces are jockeying for position in Syria ahead of a deadline for the Kurds to withdraw from the border.

— Britain got Brexit breathing space but no clarity when the European Union granted a three-month delay to the U.K.’s departure from the bloc.

— The locals knew him as Abu Mohammed Salama, a friendly but quiet animal feed wholesaler. So they were surprised to learn about his secret life harboring Abu Bakr Baghdadi, the founder of Islamic State.

BUSINESS

–– Automatic renewals of subscriptions and memberships — the gym, Amazon Prime, streaming services — have become crucial to many industries, but they may not be the most consumer-friendly, writes columnist David Lazarus.

— The historic Dutch Chocolate Shop, a quirky L.A. art treasure long obscured from public view, may soon be seen again. The building that houses the long-shuttered restaurant is for sale, which could set the table for a revival by a new owner.

SPORTS

— Experts are concerned about a race horse drug treatment for which there are no rules, one used on some horses before they start racing, that might lead to more breakdowns and serious injuries.

— UCLA football coach Chip Kelly has an explanation for his team’s abysmal start given its recent surge.

OPINION

— Climate change has set California on fire. Are you paying attention?

— “Fifty years ago, I helped invent the internet. How did it go so wrong?”

WHAT OUR EDITORS ARE READING

— Since 2014, at least 45,000 Afghan soldiers and police officers have been killed in Afghanistan. The fatality rate is comparable to America’s at the height of the Vietnam War. (The New Yorker)

— Atty. Gen. William S. Barr defended the independence and integrity of a probe being led by U.S. Atty. John Durham into the handling of the Russia investigation, while taking a swipe at James Comey’s past leadership of the FBI. (Fox News)

— The curious case of an 1875 map that imagined the U.S as a giant hog. (Atlas Obscura)

ONLY IN L.A.

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